Plutonium

You have to download the game yourself, preferably from steam.

And you have selected the same folder twice in the launcher and start zm through the launcher?

Does your server send heartbeats?

ThatOneOreo said in Not showing in serverlist and Friend joins but gets error:

with a random error

There are no random errors.

From your side everything seems to be okay.
Seeing how far your friend already comes and that it is heartbeating means that it also is visible on the server list.
That you can't see your server hosted on the same internet connection as you use is normal for bad / cheap routers which don't support NAT-Loopback which would send back network packets destined for your own public IP to the set-up local device.

As already mentioned Steam has the game files, in the case of WaW there also is a physical CD release, but you would have to install quite many patches by hand afterwards.
Let me be honest, 100% of the video install guides for Plutonium do make mistakes or are simply outdated.
With 99+% being straight up trash.

Delete the iw5 folder inside the storage folder of your Plutonium install and run the updater again.
You have installed custom scripts that are trying to import functions from scripts that are not available (anymore).

Alec1 said in WAW shows up as installed, I didnt set it up:

I do not have the option to install it

That's because we don't provide any. You will have to install it yourself, which is just a few clicks if you use the Steam version.

It is possible but not supported.
You will have to copy and paste quite a few dlls from a newer Windows.
But before you do that you could look into using Linux for your server, which is also not supported but much safer.

https://forum.plutonium.pw/topic/32250

Is there a way to have it so my "server" is listed in the F10 Server list for anyone to join?
Or if this is the case by default, is there a way to not have my "server" listed in the F10 server list?

Only with a server key the servers are listed. If the port is reachable it is also shown in-game.

And is this website reliable to see if your server is online and listed on the server list?

Plutools does not care about the server is reachable, only if its listed.

Is there a way to only allow invited friends to join my lobby?

T4 does not have lobbies at all.

Is there a way to set a password that is required to join the server?

Yes.

I did not see any documentation on this.

The server config clearly documents this.

Soon.

I'm still here, but I can't do anything about bans, there is literally one person that can.
You have to patient.

Might be a bit NSFW depending on where you are. I would spoiler it if still possible.

Some more layers would be nice.
Or being able to edit it again, to fix those little mistakes down there.

sounds like a skill issue on your side.

The AC was never intended to catch all cheaters just to get rid of most of them so the server owners can take care of the rest. If you choose to play on a server from a hoster that has many more servers than they can realistically support or simply don't have any interest in supporting you are not understanding the basics.

Bans are not extended for using the same account to check the remaining time.

We don't hand out free maps at all.
If you have the files you can play them if not then you can't play them.

Coole Geschichte Bro.
Sounds like he got banned from a game server and not from Plutonium.
I looked up the user ID (4551925) for your friend and literally nothing pops up when I search for his user ID when it comes to any AC punishment at all.

Could you get a screenshot (not a photo) of the message?

You can try cg_draw2d 0 but that will also remove other 2d elements.
Best way to prevent this is to play on other servers.

just read what already got posted? you don't even need to scroll up